THE END OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Book Details + Condition: Barnes and Noble, Inc (New York). First Edition, 1953. Hardcover. 407 pages with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated. From the publisher: "Ferdinand Lot provides extensive explanations for the fall of the Roman Empire which helped to lay the groundwork for the Middle Ages. In addition, the author provides multiple explanations for the birth of the Middle Ages which embrace not only politics and war, but linguistic, geographic, cultural, social, and economic factors." Chapters include:
- The Crisis of the Third Century and the Restoration of the Empire
- The Political Crisis of the Third Century
- Economic Retrogression of the Roman World
- The Caste System
- The Decay and End of Ancient Art
- The Downfall
- Rome and the Barbarians in the Second Half of the Fourth Century
- Italy After the Disappearance of the Western Empire (476 - 526)
- The Failure of Justinian's Work
- The Seizure of Gaul by the Franks
- The Merovingian Monarchy
- And more.
From the massive collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; light shelf wear to boards; Parker's bookplate and name to front endpapers; approximately 75pp with inked underlining and notations, mainly in the first half of the book.
